Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-g7gxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-11T02:56:53.336Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Does drug mis-instrumentalization lead to drug abuse?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2011

Tod E. Kippin
Tod E. Kippin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences & the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660. kippin@psych.ucsb.eduhttp://www.psych.ucsb.edu/
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Understanding the perceived benefits of using drugs to achieve specific mental states will provide novel insights into the reasons individuals seek to use drugs. However, the precision of attempts to instrumentalize drugs is unclear both across drugs and individuals. Moreover, mis-instrumentalization, defined as discrepancies between such endpoints, may have relevance to understanding the relation among use, abuse, and addiction.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 6 , December 2011 , pp. 316 - 317
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Becker, J. B. & Hu, M. (2008) Sex differences in drug abuse. Front Neuroendocrinology 29(1):36–47.Google Scholar
Evans, S. M. & Foltin, R. W. (2010) Does the response to cocaine differ as a function of sex or hormonal status in human and non–human primates? Hormones Behavior 58(1):13–21.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kendler, K. S., Schmitt, E., Aggen, S. H. & Prescott, C. A. (2008) Genetic and environmental influences on alcohol, caffeine, cannabis, and nicotine use from early adolescence to middle adulthood. Archives of General Psychiatry 65(6):674–82.Google Scholar
Koob, G. F., Ahmed, S. H., Boutrel, B., Chen, S. A., Kenny, P. J., Markou, A., O'Dell, L. E., Parsons, L. H. & Sanna, P. P. (2004) Neurobiological mechanisms in the transition from drug use to drug dependence. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 27(8):739–49.Google Scholar